Thank God we have the objective journalists at the New York Times to place their preferred Obama-is-doing-just-fine-this-is-not-his-fault narrative in a "breaking news" headline. Ah, force majeure ... thanks, Pinch.

Yes, snow affected January's anemic jobs number. But the idea that weather is playing any meaningful role in the continued sluggish recovery is absurd. The Reagan recovery following the deep recession of 1981-82 witnessed quarterly GDP growth of 5 to 9 percent and consistent monthly job growth in the hundreds of thousands. You think a little snow and ice would have derailed the Reagan boom of the mid-1980s?

After 2 years of self-inflicted tension, Obama has wisely tried to re-build trust with the business community; something Reagan never had to worry about. The next few months will determine whether today's awful jobs report was a blip on the screen or a real warning sign to the White House that greater trust-building efforts with private sector industries are needed.

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